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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in elearning have made it possible for humans in every nation on earth to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Reddit to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on low motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Teachers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also addresses the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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